Harvesters will help ryots cut costs - Exhibition on power tools in agriculture a big hit

This year’s monsoon has shown season-long predictions are of little use. Will India’s state meteorologists listen - The monsoon: lessons, and a question

New pricing to affect those with high domestic sales; industry lauds move - Pharma to gulp one-time bitter pill

It is a positive development that many new gated communities in and around several Indian cities are more organised in planning and implementing the sanctioned layout in accordance with the original intent of high quality living - Sustainable green spaces improve quality of urban living

In a further confirmation of the continued sluggishness in the economy, the growth rate of the eight core sector industries decelerated to 2.1 per cent in August from 3.8 per cent in the same month a year ago, mainly owing to contraction in output of crude oil, natural gas, fertilizers and cement - Core sector growth slips

Sterling may get . 1,200-cr valuation; deal could be largest in dairy sector - Global Dairy Majors Join the Race for Sterling Agro

Govt sets a target of 40 million tonnes for the 2012-13 kharif season - Rice procurement estimated to rise 14%

In all, 888 engineering seats added in 2012-13, compared to 342 the previous year, according to AICTE data - Spurt in demand for PG engineering courses

Who doesn’t like simple stories? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could toss out villains and live happily ever after? Unfortunately, this happens only in fairy tales - The Myth of Bt Cotton Collapse

In the season of reforms, a spate of insensitive regulations is threatening the very existence of the non-profit sector - It’s ‘reining’ restrictions for NGOs

Earlier, politicians thought voters demanded a ceiling on inflation.Now, people want a floor on growth - Politics: The changing assumptions

In the past few months, Cipla has changed its strategy in a number of areas — from region, to product to human resources — to prevent a future meltdown from eroding margins - Cipla goes through a quiet revolution

Reserve Bank of India Survey - 4 YEARS AT THE HELM

The Naukri Job Speak index for August shows a dip in hiring levels quelling the optimistic hiring forecast at the beginning of the year - Continued slowdown in hiring activity

Flash floods and landslips that have followed unusually sustained rainfall since September 17 have left a deadly trail in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh - Better planning for floods

The waste of daylight hours strengthens the case for a separate time zone ahead of IST for the eastern States - Not in their comfort zone

The threat of environmental damage by coal-fired plants has triggered protests similar to those against the Kudankulam project - Heat is on for thermal power too

Agriculture : A poor monsoon this year has put the spotlight back on agriculture. But, this time around, with no pick-up in exports and services, which usually offset the adverse effects of an inadequate farm output, it has become imperative for policy-makers to give agriculture a much-needed boost - Agriculture’s Back in Focus as Growth Slips

Economy : The government’s decision to take a few hard steps will go a long way in changing the perception among investors, says Raghuram Rajan. In an interview with ET Now’s Supriya Shrinate, the chief economic advisor says he’s hopeful of some upward momentum in the coming days -I don’t Think We Are Anywhere Near ’91 Crisis

Stay Clear of schemes that sound too good to be true....companies that offer fabulous returns could disappear with your money as they can't sustain their business model - Greed could lead

We need retail reform as India's Farmers must be connected to its rising cities - Rural Welfare not Walmart

Instead of boosting growth, policy should focus on addressing the current account and budget deficits - Separating India’s twin deficits

The economic policy measures - STATSGURU

Science & Technology : Primary care should cover the growing tribe of non-communicable diseases: diabetes, cancer and heart disorders - Broad-Base Primary Healthcare

Arctic sea ice sets a new low and the Northern Hemisphere is feeling the heat - THE BIG MELTDOWN

INDIAN PERSPECTIVE - WEATHERING THE STORM

The Ministry of Agriculture has estimated India’s total foodgrain production this kharif season would fall 10 per cent to 117.19 million tonnes - Agricultural futures fall on hopes of good kharif production

Economy : The SME sector is a vibrant part of the economy, accounting for 40% of manufacturing and generating jobs on a scale second only to agriculture - LEVERAGING THE STRENGTHS WE HAVE

Ban import of agriculture produce: Toddy Movement - Use ethanol instead of petrol

Science & Technology : The much needed big push towards low-cost, highly-efficient, cutting-edge renewable energy technologies was lacking till recently - Sayonara nuclear power

It is government p olicy that has led to the socialisation of risk and privatisation of benefit - The West’s banking crisis – I

Aggressive Chemotherapy and invasive surgeries may beat cancer,but brings host of problems for patients - The Pain of Cancer

Instead of spending time on polemics over policy, India should make infrastructure projects top priority - Picking up the slack

Extending India's Growth momentum required institutional reforms that did not take place.Now growth constraints have resurfaced - A Wasted Sweet Spot

Fat margins, increased volumes — this cigarette maker can’t do anything wrong even as the world, and India, tighten the noose around cigarette makers and smokers - Despite a war against cigarettes, ITC is sizzling

Agriculture: In the last five years the group has supplied 60 tonnes of paddy seeds - Organic SRI motivates seed production by small farmers

Socio - Economy : One of three nations still registering indigenous transmission of wild poliovirus, Pakistan is eager to learn from India’s success in eradicating the disease - Cross-border lessons in saving lives

Research has proven that lack of praise and recognition is the main reason for employees leaving an organisation - Recognise employees’ achievements to improve engagement

In the noise over the irregularities in allocation of natural resources, the huge environmental and related costs of exploiting these have been forgotten - Costs that Coalgate brushes around

Economy : Growth has resulted in some decline in poverty, but the condition of those at the lower levels remains pathetic - Slums dwarf skyscrapers

Economy Statistics - STATSGURU

Transplantation remains an involved procedure with the country lacking in organs as well as awareness - The Wait for the Donors Organs

The euro should steadily depreciate, and Europeans should tighten their belts - Solving the euro zone’s problems

Economy : The stock market and large sections of the media have reacted with predictable euphoria to last week’s bold economic announcements, hoping that the latest reform measures will revive the ‘animal spirits’ of entrepreneurs and reverse the slowdown in growth - Irrational exuberance

Those who are given rights by the government to exploit nature’s bounty must share a part of their profits with the people of the country - Eight simple steps to fair resource allocation

A Radical new method disposes of garbage, without the harmful byproducts of incineration,to provide electricity - An unlikely source of energy

Higher-than-average rainfall during the past three weeks would help boost yields of summer-planted crops, which were hit by weak rains at the beginning of the monsoon season - MONSOON REVIVAL AIDS RECOVERY OF CROPS

Economy : Nellore district once used to be at the top as far as the population of livestock and poultry are concerned, but now, the numbers have fallen, following the growth of aquaculture - Livestock population in Nellore falls to 43.6 lakh

A New breed of Robotics aims to help people Walk again - Robotic Legs

A new study says pacemakers removed during autopsies may have enough battery life to be donated and used again - Can Pacemakers Be Used Twice?

Economy : The WPI (wholesale price index)-based headline inflation has crept up to 7.55 per cent in August from 6.87 per cent in July owing to rising prices of food items as well as manufactured goods - Inflation creeps up in August

Cashless transactions save money and are easy to monitor. RBI and govt must help them reach critical mass - A cashless India

Jumps 2%, further upside seen in near term - Rupee, day’s best Asian performer

Economy : Policy must combat high inflation, falling savings and the erosion of investments - Two Moral Dilemmas

Our Biggest Economic Challenge is:to talk ourselves out of the lies fed by government - The price of half-Truth

The Indian economy is stumbling towards a major crisis, but who cares? - Macro signals flashing red

Economy : Prime objective of this programme is to ensure food security - Coming together to help single women, landless women, widows

Socio Economy : A Planning Commission draft document has made proposals that fail to reflect the case for expanding and improving public-funded medical services and reining in private operators - Setting up Universal Health Care Pvt. Ltd.

Economy : The draft law on acquisition strikes a balance between development and justice for those who will be displaced in the process - Bill for land gives true value

Economy : Conventional economics cannot explain deep structural problems, we need a new theory - You Economists Don’t Know Nothing

In this article, we shall look at why we need more women at the highest levels, what it takes for women to succeed at those levels and how organisations can actively encourage their greater participation in key leadership roles - Reaching the top

Workplaces involve teamwork – that is, teams share the given work, make due contributions and complete the job successfully - Women and sharing work

With the advent of social media sites such as Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter, recruitment procedures have been dramatically transformed - Recruiting through social media

Economy : The budget has targeted [fiscal deficit at] 5.1 per cent [of the GDP] - Slew of steps underway to contain fiscal gap

Economy : With the economy in a freefall — intensifying recession, financial meltdown, currency devaluation, deepening European debt crisis and shaky business environment — the future looks extremely complex - Turn crisis and uncertainty into opportunity

ICAR Director-General says India needs to produce up to 2 million tonnes of rice to feed the teeming millions - Hybrid rice to be grown in 5 million hectares: Ayyappan

Dealing with India’s late spurt on the industrial scene and the associated process of democratising of entrepreneurship, the book by Sumit K. Majumdar, Professor of Technology Strategy in the School of Management, University of Texas, arrives at an opportune moment - Catching up with the developed world

The programme to target pump efficiency will only add to chronic water and power shortages - The futility of ‘pump priming’ agriculture

IT leader Infosys has chosen high margins over fast growth, a strategy that has cost it both market capitalisation and market share. While many suggest that Infosys should reconsider its stand, academics and analysts seem to have a completely different opinion. Here is how they see the road ahead - Is it time Infosys cut prices?

There is too little international adoption from India - Tying up adoptions in red tape

Financial markets may have jumped on the ‘Draghi put’ but the fundamentals still look dubious - Markets ready to rally?

India China Trade Statistic - STATSGURU

Agriculture : As the monsoon plays truant, the tragic face of our agrarian distress, suicide by farmers, is likely to manifest again in several parts of the country - Bt Cotton & Farmer Suicides

Economy : Nizamabad Collector says empowerment is possible only through education - “Focus should be on women’s literacy”

India’s decided that public-private partnerships will fuel growth.Without similar investment in regulatory capacity, that’s backfiring - The PPP nation 

Economy : The present retirement age of 60 years is disadvantageous to officers belongingto the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as they generally join government service later than other officers - Fixed tenure, a way forward on promotions

The gloom appears to be overdone as only some segments are going through a rough patch - The myth of ad slowdown

The latest battleground for the world’s biggest tech companies is one of its oldest forms of data: maps - How Google Earth Changed the World

Expediting environmental, particularly forest, clearances would more than double coal production and, along with the delayed infrastructure projects, take us to double-digit growth; this requires a new national consensus on the dynamic interaction between nature and society - Infrastructure and Nature

Economy : India’s coal sector is governed by opaque rules that promote discretion and graft - Coalgate’s Main Lesson

ITsAP submits report to IT Minister to make Andhra Pradesh a leader in the IT and ITeS sectors - Industry body prepares route map to develop IT sector

The government must remove the subsidy on diesel, LPG and kerosene, and protect the poor from the impact through cash transfers - Fuelling a manageable price rise

Cancelling all coal blocks is not the way out the mess.Power generating stations with captive mines should be made to sell electricity at regulation tariffs - Mining a Solution

Universities provide discount coupons, assistant ship that can be brought to good use in the current economic slowdown - Save while studying abroad

Express their desire to withdraw case against AICTE over new rules - B-schools seek compromise

In both Europe and the US, standard macroeconomic policies have done little to end the recession - This recovery is different

State-owned banks may be sitting on a powder-keg of inadequately provisioned loans - The hidden truth to PSB profitability

Novartis wants to patent its cancer drug, Glivec, in India while critics say that the company is simply ‘evergreening’ it. The outcome of the case will have huge ramifications - Drugstore cowboy: Will India keep Novartis at bay?

A SNAPSHOT OF PE ACTIVITY & DEALS - STATISTICS

Economy : The US presidential campaign must recognise that Indian companies are heavily invested in America - A Growing Stake

Socio Economy : There can be no two opinions about the need to augment the potential for innovation of Indians working in every sphere - The Mess in Education

Agriculture : Farmers can make their own mixture and use it as and when required for controlling infestation in coconut. Given below are some simple steps for making the mixture - Bordeaux mixture to control coconut infestations

For the last 25 years government farms are running at a loss - Planting trees can help farmers tide over financial loss

Science and Technology : Junk DNA is actually populated by massive number of features that help gene regulation - 80 % of human genome has an active role or function

Economy : More than a political consensus, it is hard data on the absence of marginalised sections from the higher bureaucracy that will give legitimacy to the measure - Winning the case for promotion quotas

Growth will be elusive without structural reforms but there’s reason to believe that it will be upwardly mobile from now on - Is the worst over for the economy?

Agriculture : India can cut agricultural emissions and subsidies by creating a market for farm offsets - Time for Farm Offsets

Experts say that 95 percent of human communication happens in the brain first and is then expressed - some of it through words and the other, the major portion, through body language. If managers can understand verbal as well as non-verbal messages, they will be able to grasp the real meaning of the words spoken by their team members - Interpreting body language

In this era of global work practices and technological innovations, there are always individuals who think outside the box - Entrepreneurship education

Every organisation goes through some crisis or the other that presents various challenges on a daily basis - Crisis management - tips for managers

Today, for most of us, social networking sites have become an integral part of our lives - Social media plays a crucial role in recruitment

Working women, in general, spend long hours behind a desk or on their feet depending on the kind of job they are in, besides the work at home - Ergonomics for working women

The three U.N. food agencies have urged governments to take quick action to curb rising prices of corn, wheat and soybeans and avoid a repeat of the 2007-2008 food crises - U.N. agencies urge action to avoid food crisis

Economy : With an outgoing overseas development assistance agency now in place, India needs to articulate its development cooperation agenda in a cogent manner - Aid from India, coming to a country near you

Economy : Instead of rigid targeting, the government must build on the success of the public distribution system which is quietly becoming a significant means of social support - A Bill that asks too much of the poor

Economy : The foreign student visa row is a bogus crisis created by the Tories, and could be economically suicidal for Britain - Scrambling Britain’s golden egg

Science and Technology : The dramatic growth of IT and ITeS has led to policies heavily skewed in favour of big corporations - Inequities of IT industry

Economy :  India’s manufacturing sector expanded at its slowest pace this year in August, amid weak demand from Europe and output disruptions caused by power failures, a private survey showed on Monday - Manufacturing PMI Falls to Nine-Month Low in August

The stock’s upmove has been boosted by a strong pipeline of products and gains from exclusivity sales.
A fast resolution of USFDA issues and successful launch of dermatology products are key triggers - Near-term upsides limited

A small rate cut from the central bank will not change the interest rates available to most borrowers - Look beyond the repo rate

Economy : The Constitution of India is a formidable document by any standards. In terms of size, it has nearly 400 articles and an ever-increasing number of amendments that has crossed the century mark - Insightful introduction to Indian Constitution

This is an era of still-rising numbers of labour migration across international borders, despite economic and job market vagaries and setbacks in many parts of the world - Working women on the move

Economy : Should emerging economies join corporates in the promotion of Global Value Chains? - Free advice without mix of caution

Economy : The Annual Report for 2011-12, a statutory report of the Reserve Bank of India’s central board, covers two broad areas: the working and operations of the central bank and its financial accounts for the year and the assessment of the macroeconomic performance during the year and the prospects for 2012-13 - Growth v price stability

Economy : The worst setback to the economy since 1991 on account of the weakening rupee and deterioration in the budgetary position has become more daunting as a result of the prevalence of drought conditions in parts of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan - Overcoming the crisis

Investing through SIPs will ensure that during bad times, your installment will get more units - Make your money work hard

In America and Europe, high unemployment means increasing political pressure on central banks - The return of inflation to the West?

Distribution remains a contentious area and urgently needs a complete overhaul - Weakest link in the power chain

The Mining Sector Share of states in value of mineral production 2011-12 (estimated)- STATSGURU

Economy : But here’s what govt needs to recognise: 8% growth means 12 mn jobs created annually, 5.5% growth creates only 8 mn jobs. And low growth cannot be inclusive growth - GDP Number: Bad, But Could Have Been Worse

Developers could not find the model of affordable housing viable as they used same resources for premium projects and due to rise in cement and steel prices - Developers don't find affordable homes 'affordable'

The second version of the JNNURM must focus on putting systems in place that stop the extensive wastage of water in urban areas- Managing our cities’ water

The laws controlling clinical tests are weak in India.As a result, unsuspecting tribals, villagers and even students are used as guinea pigs - Trial by error

Socio -Economy : India ranks among the lowest in the world in public spending on health, but the private spending is one of the highest - Private health care no panacea

Economy : Decline in fixed investment growth is a source of concern - First quarter GDP growth at decade low of 5.5 %

Economy : The announcement of the growth data for the first quarter of the current year (April-June 2012) was keenly awaited for reasons other than the usual ones - The trend is clear

Hospitals can learn from other service industries how to better serve their primary and secondary customers - Hospitals are not factories